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Kerry McCarthy

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Business of the House
Thursday 8th September 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Double Portrait Steve Double
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My hon. Friend is a strong champion for her constituency of Eastbourne and the businesses there. She is absolutely right. This is the first Government ever to take the action we are taking to address this long-standing issue that has been going on for many, many generations. She is absolutely right that the misinformation put out by some Opposition parties is shameless scaremongering.

Kerry McCarthy Portrait Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) (Lab)
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T5. During her leadership campaign, the now Prime Minister chose to make a big thing of solar panels being on agricultural land. She did not talk about biomass, which actually takes up far more arable land. Does the Secretary of State agree with her attacks on solar, or does he think that it has a role to play in helping to sort out our energy crisis?

Ranil Jayawardena Portrait Mr Jayawardena
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I want to see top-quality agricultural land being used to grow food.

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